seems like a paid review but i read it and it's applicable for any brand nas really, and it's a fair assesment.
personally i recommend seagate ironwolves non pro. My criteria though is budget minded and still albeit reliable, fast but still low rpm, and use as little power as possible, and has good smart testing. seagate ironwolves fit the bill. not to mentioned i was more than a little iffed with western digitals scamming others, so to punish them, don't buy their products unless they give you a good reason to (may not like them, but i always go for good deals )
Here is proof of my own recent purchases. I put my money where my mouth is.
as to why i have a 8tb there, i use that for my desktop. probly overkill though for non raid but i just don't trust regular hdd drives. i've had bad experiences with those in the past.
for the record, prior to my seagate ironwolf purchases, i did buy 2 wd reds (thkfully they were not smr, i dodged a bullet there the ones were affected were the newer wd red reds that came after mine. now there are newer wd red pluses that are not smr ). but as you can tell i'm not gonna be buying any wd reds anytime soon
i buy 4tbs cauz that within my budget. i need 4 of them for use in raid5 (and another 4 for the backup). If your budget allows for it you can go for higher capacity, i just get what works for me
The older hgst deskstars (with questionable reliability cause i had that medium errors pop in qts), i'll use them for a backup emergency (i have other backups so it's not like i'm 100% trusting these as my fail safe, but more backups why not. i got extra devices to fit them into).
i got these seagate ironwolves running 24/7 in a ts-877 qnap nas, a fracal torrent pc case (with scythe fuma 2 pc fan cooler, and the default pc case fans *they are huge). Under these conditions i don't have any noise issues. Not saying it's perfectly silent but, it's not to the point of it being a problem, so that's my review on that.
*this is not a seagate sponsored ad. i just genuinely share what i use and recommend for others in the same boat. Feel free to get other alternatives if you prefer, such as wd reds, toshiba n300. Probly others but i don't know what those are, i only know 3 brands that offer hdd nas drives on budget
i tried to find a newer video that compared all 3 brands, but all i could find was this. also like she pointed out, the different capacity sizes may have difference performance, so google, reddit or youtube those capacity sizes specifically to find a more accurate comparison for the capacity you are looking at.
The Best NAS Drives of 2020 - 8 TB & 14 TB Roundup (WD Red, Red Pro, Seagate Ironwolf, Toshiba N300)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEtEkp_nmZ4
and just to remind, stay away from smr for raid purposes.
Testing WD Red 4TB SMR vs CMR HDDs in a ZFS NAS Array - Skip SMR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hdJTwaTl8I
Why are Drive Manufacturers in BIG TROUBLE?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aztTf2gI55k
and other news for whats new and upcoming 2022 and onwards. where are the mamr and hamr hard drives? this is all i could find on that
https://www.anandtech.com/show/17097/we ... re-unclear
https://www.techradar.com/sg/news/could ... against-it
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/toshi ... ard-drivesShowa Denko K.K. (SDK), the world's largest independent maker of hard drive platters, has confirmed that it developed media featuring MAS-MAMR (microwave assisted switching-microwave assisted magnetic recording) technology. Eventually, this technology will allow Toshiba, one of the key customers of SDK, to build HDDs with capacities of over 30TB.
MAS-MAMR is essentially a superset of MAMR technology, which alters magnetic coercivity of hard drive media using microwaves. With MAS-MAMR, coercivity is altered even more significantly, allowing even narrower tracks and thus increased areal density. The technology was co-developed by Showa Denko (media with a brand-new magnetic), TDK (read/write heads equipped with dual spin-injection-layer), and Toshiba (drives). The three companies did not disclose the actual areal density, but they indicate that MAS-MAMR will enable Toshiba to build HDDs with over 30TB capacities. They also didn't say how many platters these drives will feature.
Changing platters and read/write heads is a big deal for HDD makers. Typically, companies prefer to change one crucial component of their drives, but with heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), Seagate had to significantly alter the architecture of its hard drives. Apparently, Toshiba will have similar challenges with MAS-MAMR. Meanwhile, the good news is that the technology seems to scale, so it will be used for years to come.
Toshiba has already started shipments of MAMR-based 18TB HDDs for nearline and enterprise-grade NAS applications. MAS-MAMR platters and heads will be used for its second-generation MAMR drives. Unfortunately, Toshiba does not say when such drives will hit the market.
Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) is running out of steam, so manufacturers need to use various energy-assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) technologies to tangibly increase the capacities of their hard drives. Seagate was first out of the gate with HAMR, but currently such HDDs are only available to select customers. By contrast, Western Digital (or rather its HGST division) bet on MAMR initially, but then chose to use energy-assisted PMR (ePMR) for commercial hard drives last year.
Recently, Western Digital implied that ePMR is a good enough technology to increase HDD capacities for years to come, before HAMR takes over, which left us wondering about the fate of MAMR. While we still have no idea regarding Western Digital's MAMR plans, it looks like Toshiba, Showa Denko, and TDK believe that MAMR and MAS-MAMR technologies have strong potential for capacity growth.
Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording (MAMR) Presentation plus Q and A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoOjrnVM3VM